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One method of managing volatility risk is following hold-till-maturity (HTM). This concept can be practised by investing directly in bonds. On maturity of the bond, money flows back to the investor and returns are not dependent on market conditions at that point in time. In mutual funds, fixed maturity plans (FMPs) work on this principle. If it is a three-year FMP, on maturity, all the bonds in the portfolio mature and there is no market/volatility risk.

Giving the lenders the option to decide which place requires banking presence through a brick-and-mortar model and where a step-down presence would help, Sitharaman made it clear that she is not against digitalisation and efforts.

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The process of normalization of returns to lower levels has started happening. The corrections seen in midcaps and smallcaps were not very deep but the corrections in some of the individual scrips have been quite substantial.

A large number of investors have been opening Demat accounts and investing in secondary markets, and filing applications for IPO, data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)suggests the number of new Demat accounts being opened between April 2020 and January 2021 was around 10.7 million.

It is clearly evident that the inherent nature of the Indian Rupee has been to depreciate against the dollar with intermittent corrections and will continue to be so. The major reason for this is the age-old fact that a high inflation rate will continue to reduce the value of any currency; Indian inflation rates like most emerging market economies have been higher than that of the US.

The market capitalisation (m-cap) of Reliance Industries zoomed Rs 58,671.55 crore to reach Rs 15,74,052.03 crore. The m-cap of RIL went past Rs 16 lakh crore mark in intra-day trade on Thursday following a rally in its share price. The valuation of Infosys jumped Rs 30,605.08 crore to Rs 7,48,032.17 crore. Bajaj Finance added Rs 22,173.04 crore to its market valuation to Rs 4,70,465.58 crore and Tata Consultancy Services Rs 15,110.63 crore to Rs 14,32,013.76 crore.

The government is already managing loss-making telecom firms BSNL and MTNL which are yet to post profit after a relief package of around Rs 69,000 crore granted to them in October 2019.

"To say the market is at an all-time high is a very misleading statement. The value of the Sensex or the Nifty is an indicator of the performance of our investments and as such should not be a barometer to deploy or redeem investments. Ultimately, when one buys equity either directly or through mutual funds, one participates in the earnings of a company or portfolio."

This month we had some good news too for BTC, El Salvador started building an infrastructure which would facilitate the BTC as legal tender. UAE is leading the crypto wonder with trading in Dubai free zones approved by the regulators and even Ukraine adopted laws which will make movement and usage of cryptocurrency easier.